Tourist information board on the walls at Bishop’s Gate, outside which James II waited in the rain for the surrender of the city in 1689.
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Bishop’s Gate
London-/Derry
Church Bastion
Tourist information board on the walls of Derry city, at the Church Bastion/St Columb’s.
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The Platform
One of the tourist information boards along with walls of Derry; this one describes the history of the area around the Presbyterian church and the Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall, including George Farquhar and his play The Beaux’ Stratagem. The platform in question is not a viewing platform for Orange parades but a gun platform in the walls of Derry.
Magazine Street Upper, Londonderry
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Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall
These images are from the Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall in Society Street, Londonderry. When not on display in the street during celebrations of the Siege, Lundy’s effigy is stored in a narrow room in the hall. Brother [Samuel] David Montgomery was a part-time members of the UDR; he was shot by the IRA in the timber yard where he worked on February 10th, 1981.
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The Walled City
This is a tourist information board just outside the walls of the old city of Derry, on Bishop Street. “If stones could speake” comes from a 1633 engraved stone in St Columb’s (see X01990).
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The People’s Gallery
The People’s Gallery is a series of murals by the Bogside Artists along Rossville Street and Lecky Road in Derry. Although the sign says there are 12 murals, at the time there were in fact only 11 (as this page at the official web site says), though a twelfth would be added in 2008. For images of all 12 murals, see the Gallery’s Visual History Page.
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Civil Rights
For a time in 2005 (and beyond?) the Civil Rights mural by the Bogside Artists was modified to support the Rossport 5 (see Power To The People). By the time of this image in 2007, and addition of the info board, the central “Jobs, not creed” placard had been restored in black.
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Sniper At Work/No RUC
Two “nail-ups” on an electricity pole in Westland Street, Derry.
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Defend The Raytheon 9
“Derry Anti-War Coalition – Defend the Raytheon 9”. On August 9th, 2006, nine activists (including Eamonn McCann) broke into the Raytheon offices in Derry and destroyed computers and equipment. The trial would begin in May 2008.
See previously: Killed By Weapons Systems | One World One Struggle
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Years From Now They Will Ask You
“Years from now they will ask you where you were when your comrades were dying on hungerstrike. Shall you say you were with us or shall you say that you were conforming to the very system that drove us to our deaths[?]” INLA (sign the light-pole as well as the flags and red star in the mural) volunteer Patsy O’Hara, from Derry, joined the hunger strike on the same day as Raymond McCreesh (March 22nd) and died, 61 days later, later in the same day (May 21st, 11:29 p.m.) as him (2:11 a.m.).
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